Match the sentences from the text (1-8) with the uses (a-g).

1) I might get a pleasant surprise one day.
2) This weekend hundreds of futurologists are
meeting at Newcastle University.
3) The conference starts on Thursday.
4) All of us are going to use our voices to give
instructions to computers.
5) Tiny robots may be sent around our bodies.
6) I'm sure you'11 agree.
7) I'm going to give up astrology.
8) I'll be there in Newcastle this weekend.

a) an arrangement for the future
b) a future fact
c) a firm prediction based on speaker's/writer's opinion
d) a weak prediction (x2)
e) an intention
f) a spontaneous decision
g) a prediction based on observable evidence

Example:
are definitely going to happen (we can see evidence now)?
will probably happen (this is your opinion)?
may happen in your lifetime (there is a chance they will happen)?
might happen in your lifetime (there is asmall chance that they will happen)?